Plato and art that is more noble

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Plato was an advocate of censorship of all the arts. But he did allow for some exceptions, so the cartoon above need not be only about ego-boosting hypocrisy. Here’s my summary of Plato’s arguments for censorship, as presented in The Republic. (Image source: An early edition of Douglas Palmer’s fun Does the Center Hold? An Introduction to Western Philosophy.)

Related: Socrates in Plato’s Apology and Crito. In the Philosophers, Explained series:

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